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Samsung CEO apologizes for Stifling phone performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported the other day that Samsung had been caught up in a bit of a scandal over performance throttling. (Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance). At the company’s AGM, …

Tags:Market Shares - Brands| Samsung| Smartphones

Samsung Electronics Ships More LCD Smartphones than OLED models in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in Business Korea last week, quoting data from Omdia, pointed out that Samsung shipped more smartphones with LCDs than with OLEDs in 2021. Samsung Electronics shipped 135.8 million LCD …

Tags:Market Data| OLEDs| Samsung| Small Medium LCDs| Smartphones

The Xiaomi 12 Series Launches Internationally

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi launched three 12 series smartphones. The displays are: Xiaomi 12 – 6.28″ 1080 x 2400 AMOLED – 120Hz, , 1,100 cd/m² $749 Xiaomi 12 Pro – 6.7″ 1440 x 3200 …

Tags:Smartphones| Xiaomi

Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samung has been attacked by a lot of users in Korea over reports that an add-in, the ‘Game Optimizing Service’, or GOS, may kick in to …

Tags:CPUs| Korea| Samsung| Smartphones

2021 OLED Shipments Rise 25% Y/Y

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC said that 242 million OLEDs were shipped in Q4 2021, up 11% on Q3, bringing shipments for the year to 831 million, up 25%. Smartphones dominated with 638 million, up …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLED Monitors| OLED Notebooks| OLED TVs| OLEDs| QD OLEDs| Samsung Display| Smartphones

Over 10 new OLED smartphones announced at MWC 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED Info reported that ten new OLED display-based smartphones were announced at MWC 2022. Oppo Find X5 / X5 Lite / X5 Pro TCL 30/ 30+ Xiaomi Poco M4 Pro / …

Tags:MWC 2022| OLEDs| Smartphones

HEMIX Home Electronics Market Index Q1-4/2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GFU in Germany said that the Home Electronics Market Index (HEMIX) grew last year as the value of the market in Germany grew by 3% to more than €49 billion …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Consoles| Germany| Market Data| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)

OnePlus plans to launch a phone with 150W charging

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo and OnePlus announced at MWC that they will introduce high capacity smartphone chargers that can charge a 4,500 mAh battery in 15 minutes, with 150W (20V @ 7.5A) of charging …

Tags:Batteries| Smartphones

GfKResearch: Smartphone market recovers in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GfK put out a press release on the global smartphone market which it valued at $365.5 billion, up 13.4% on 2020 and with further recovery in 2022. Most of the growth …

Tags:Market Data| Smartphones